You may know this already, but you can (and I do) tell ghost to split
the image up into bite (not byte) sized files when you create it. I
typically break all of my ghost images into 690MB files just in case,
for some unknown reason, I need to burn it off to CDs (or a DVD if the
target system supports DVD). Having said that, I try to keep my images
as small as possible, so I've never made a 34GB image.
ghost -split 690 -auto -z9
That's what I use when I am going to create a ghost image. The -auto
makes it automatically change the file extention without asking for
filename confirmation. The -z9 forces the highest level of file
compression. If you've not been using -z9, and you're making 34GB
images, you may be pleasantly surprised in the end-result.
Hope this helps you. If not, maybe someone else will benefit.
Tom Woods
Tomm Lorenzin wrote:
SUBJECT: errmsg "The file protocol process died unexpectedly"
Hope this hermaphrodite/SaMBa-network issue saves someone some of the
head-scratching that I have been through for the past 24 hours.
I have been having a problem xferring a 34GB "Norton Ghost" image from
my personal-networked FC3 RAIDed backup server to my USB2 portable
Maxtor 200GB HD. In several tries, the process always fails in the same
manner, i.e., the errmsg below shows up and a truncated 4GB file is all
that is present on the Maxtor despite bow-koo free space.
BTW... the process also died in exactly the same manner when I tried to
write the file to the Maxtor over the network while the portable was
connected to the FC3 system. This more-or-less exonerated linux. The
errmsg was just linux's voicing of the problem 'cuz that's where we were
hooked up. I'll bet (but I haven't tried yet) that I'll get a similar -
tho prolly more cryptic - errmsg from windoze xpee when I try to do the
same when directly connected to the wxpee machine.
Paraphrased form the wwweb:
"VFAT has a file size limit of 4GB. That would explain the download or
file-transfer corrupting or quitting at 4GB. This would not happen if
the maxtor was formatted as an ext3 partition."
This explains why:
1. when Ghosting directly to the 200GB Maxtor from Windoze (as ususal) -
and NOT to a separate NTFS partition, Ghost - unbidden - breaks the
ghost image into separate 4GB blocks - NOT so that they can be written
to DVDs as previously surmised, and
2, This is why xferring a large (>4GB) file to the Maxtor (VFat by
intersystem compatibility necessity) from FC3 fails when reaching 4GB
with the errmsg:
"The file protocol process died unexpectedly"
(NTFS - like ext3 - has no such 4GB filesize limit. There may be one,
but I don't know where (in filesize) it is, and I don't wanna know. 7;^D
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